#Dwarves are not inbred hillbillies


Your question seems to stem from a misreading of this phrase:

> marriage is a sacred rite among the dwarves, taken very seriously because it requires two children to move away from their homes to start a new family in the clan

You seem to have read this as "two dwarves from the same clan move away to marry, therefore they are all related to eachother", but that's not what that phrase means. It's not implying that dwarves only marry within their clan, else there'd be no reason for anybody to move away in the first place. 

It is a sacred rite because two children need to move away from their respective homes to get married, which is a very big deal for dwarves, who consider moving away from their home a terrible thing.

They then start a new **family**, within the *clan*.

The family is what you'd consider a normal human family, the parents and the kids. The clan is their extended family, through marriage or blood. But to Dwarves, that clan is just as important as their own children, hence 'extended family'.

Your confusion also seems to stem from the fact that Dwarves do not have surnames in the traditional sense. Thorin Stoneshaft is "Thorin of the Stoneshaft Clan", it is not his surname. If he marries, and the new family decides to live with the Goldhammers (and their respective elders agree to adopt him into their clan), he is now Thorin of the Goldhammers Clan, or 'Thorin Goldhammer' for humans who don't understand clans.